Link: Christina Warren on the iMac vs. Mac Pro Decision

July 28th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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Christina con­cludes that the 27″ iMac is still one of the best com­put­ers you can buy. I think that the ever-decreasing gap between the iMac and the Mac Pro indi­cates that Apple no longer views the Mac Pro as a “con­sumer” machine. In Apple’s view, the iMac is the con­sumer desk­top and the Mac Pro is a pro­fes­sional work­sta­tion. I don’t think that they worry about one can­ni­bal­iz­ing sales of the other at all.

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Suck It Honkeys

July 28th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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WARNING: Political Content Ahead!

MSNBC (amongst oth­ers) is report­ing that, pretty much as expected, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton has issued an injunc­tion block­ing the most heinous and con­sti­tu­tion­ally bogus pro­vi­sions of Arizona SB 1070. While this is good news from the per­spec­tive of jus­tice, we need to be clear on a few things. First, this is only a tem­po­rary injunc­tion until the final court deci­sions are made.


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Link: Glenn Fleishman on the DMCA Jailbreaking Exemption

July 27th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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One of the most com­pre­hen­sive, accu­rate and most of all, sane write-ups about the rul­ing by the Librarian of Congress exempt­ing jail­break­ing from the “cir­cum­ven­tion” pro­vi­sions of the DMCA. If you’re going to read one arti­cle about this, make it this one.

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Gin Time: Tonic Water Tasting

July 26th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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In an effort to pep up my gin and ton­ics I’ve decided to sam­ple some “pre­mium” tonic waters. There’s really no point in shelling out for top – shelf hooch if you’re going to mix it with swill. Tonight was Fentiman’s Tonic Water (warn­ing, hideous web­site ahoy).

The ver­dict: A fuck-sight bet­ter than Canada Dry or Schweppes.

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Winer’s Line in the Sand

July 26th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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Taking a page from the play­book of John “mother of all tools” Dowdell, Dave Winer has declared that he will no longer tol­er­ate off-topic dis­cus­sion and mind­less Apple fan­boy­ism on his pre­cious blog. Of course, in Dave’s world “off-topic” means “doesn’t agree with my sage wis­dom” and “mind­less Apple fan­boy­ism” means “in any way approv­ing of Apple.”

Look Dave, we get it, peo­ple dis­agree­ing with you irri­tates you. I mean, good gods peo­ple, don’t you know who this is? This is Dave Winer. The “proto-blogger!” Having your nar­cis­sis­tic and ill-thought-out bull­shit pointed out to you must be ago­niz­ing. I’d sug­gest dis­pens­ing with com­ments entirely, but then how would you get your fix of syco­phan­tic cock-sucking? A man can’t live by his achieve­ments alone for fuck’s sake!

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Flighty Whitey

July 23rd, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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If you haven’t heard the news, Apple has delayed the white iPhone yet again; this time to “later this year” which, as we all know is Apple-talk for December 31’st.

All jok­ing aside, if the media is look­ing for a story to play up the “Apple is run by incom­pe­tent design­tards” there you go. Announcing a prod­uct and not being able to ship it for upwards of six months is pathetic. Where’s my press con­fer­ence mother-fuckers?

I’m going to buy a Droid X out of spite.

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Link: How to Tell a Journalist From a Blogger

July 22nd, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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And, for com­plete­ness sake, the piece that led me to the last link. Read this and pay atten­tion blogtards…you in par­tic­u­lar Jizzmodo.

For the record, I’m in no way, shape or form a jour­nal­ist — just an ass­hole with a blog.

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Link: Not All Bloggers Are Journalists

July 21st, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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An extremely insight­ful piece on the his­toric and cur­rent role of the Fourth Estate.

The money quote:

In fact, I have to apol­o­gize on behalf of my entire pro­fes­sion for how you have been treated by a few blog­gers, whom I’ll have the tact to not name here. There are blog­gers who know and care noth­ing about real jour­nal­ism, who see this pro­fes­sion as an oppor­tu­nity for short-term gain at anyone’s expense, who find no joy in it and who dream only of fame in the now and a lucra­tive exit there­after. These peo­ple are not jour­nal­ists; they are self-serving scum. And they’ve roy­ally fucked up how a lot of peo­ple see my profession.

This right here is why there is a “media” cat­e­gory on this blog, and a large part of why I par­tic­i­pâté in the Angry Mac Bastards.

H/T to Shawn King for point­ing to the arti­cle that led to this one.

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Dunning-Kruger and the New Media Douchebag

July 19th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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I haven’t taken New Media Douchebag Anil Dash to task here yet, but I ran across a blog post by Anil that I couldn’t pass up. Not nec­es­sar­ily because the arti­cle was par­tic­u­larly bad (although it is) but because it’s emblem­atic of some­thing that I see con­stantly amongst the New Media Douchebag col­lec­tive. In fact, this trait may well be one of the core defin­ing aspects of the quin­tes­sen­tial New Media Douchebag. Specifically, it’s the utter and com­plete inabil­ity of the New Media Douchebag to real­ize that they are pon­tif­i­cat­ing about a sub­ject that the are woe­fully ill-prepared to discuss.


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Why Steve Jobs Is (Legitimately) Pissed at the Media

July 16th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
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I wasn’t present at Friday’s spe­cial iPhone 4 Press Conference held by Apple at their Cupertino Campus, but I fol­lowed the excel­lent live cov­er­age from Jason Snell at Macworld. Ignoring the specifics of the announce­ments (spoiler: there is no fuck­ing recall you fuck­tards), one thing jumped out at me: Steve Jobs was pal­pa­bly angry with the media.


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